# CRC

Richard Connamacher (phantom@baymoo.sfsu.edu)
Tue, 13 Feb 1996 12:10:58 PST

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    > Cyclical Redundancy Check, I believe.  It generates a 'signature' for a chunk
    > of data that can be used to easily check whether two large chunks of data are
    > the same.

    Hrm..  how accurate is it?  I would imagine that whever you take a large chunk
    of data and compress it into a tiny signature, it would be possible for two
    different sets of data, or more, to have the same signature.  I assume it's much
    faster than checking if the data itself is identical on both sides of the
    connection :)

    Phantom